Autobiographical pinned toot!
Southern Baptist my whole life and a youth pastor's daughter for most of it. Married by 18, a missionary by 23, and a mother of three by 25. Actually reading the parts of the Bible that put women in "their place" started my deconstruction. I'm in an interfaith marriage and (almost) a Psychology PhD student. I'm very interested in Buddhist thought and practices, reading, philosophy, hiking, the enneagram, and FEMINISM. Super happy to be here!
#introductions
All I have to do is write ONE paper on ONE topic...but there's so much interesting information out there. 😭
Identity issues
After realizing my life has been lived through other people for the past 27 years of my life, I’m on a journey to find my own voice.
First stop is a 5 day silent retreat at a nearby monastery that starts this afternoon.
The irony of finding my voice through a silent retreat is killing me. 😂🤷🏻♀️
#Enneagram5 post!
What is your "area of expertise", fellow 5's?! Or what have you been researching lately?
"...Please call me by my true names,
so I can wake up,
and so the door of my heart can be left open,
the door of compassion."
-Thich Nhat Hanh
Autobiographical pinned toot!
Southern Baptist my whole life and a youth pastor's daughter for most of it. Married by 18, a missionary by 23, and a mother of three by 25. Actually reading the parts of the Bible that put women in "their place" started my deconstruction. I'm in an interfaith marriage and (almost) a Psychology PhD student. I'm very interested in Buddhist thought and practices, reading, philosophy, hiking, the enneagram, and FEMINISM. Super happy to be here!
#introductions
After buying a coffee for a homeless woman at my shop, my manager told me to just “be careful”. It took me back to all the conversations the mission board would have with us, the supposed representations of Jesus in India, about giving to beggars. They told us to just “be careful” when giving to people who have been oppressed for generations and endure extreme suffering daily.
I would rather inadvertently be taken advantage of than miss a chance to make someone feel seen and cared for.
I wrote a thing I'm quite proud of about my diagnosis: https://releasethewomen.com/2019/04/01/what-an-autism-diagnosis-taught-me-about-being-human/
Buddhist cat
“No ignorance or end of it,
Nor all that comes of ignorance;
No withering, no death, No end of them.
Nor is there pain, or cause of pain, Or cease in pain, or noble path
To lead from pain;
Not even wisdom to attain! Attainment too is emptiness.”
-Heart Sutra
Sitting here staring at my cat who seems to already know all this. Tongue-couch baths may be the path to enlightenment.
In honor of yesterday’s Osteen ‘Taco Titles’ toot and @vishnu sharing about losing his Grammy to ChrisT; today, I give you Tomlin songs I’d like better with TACO in the title: 🌮 🌮 🌮
Good Good Taco
Taco, I Need You
Our Taco
How Great Is Our Taco
Taco of This City
I Lift My Taco
Here I Am to Taco
Three kids. Two pets. One corny way of counting down items in the lists I use to describe myself.